Claire Tanner

(MENAFN- The Conversation)

• Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Gender Studies, Monash University

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Claire is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Gender Studies at Monash University. Her work explores the body, health and selfhood, with a focus on lived experiences of health and illness and new and emerging technologies. Her research program is aimed at improving the health and wellbeing of diverse populations. Claire adopts qualitative, co-design, digital and participatory research methods to ensure insights from peoples lived experiences inform better healthcare practices, the ethical development of new and emerging technologies and safer digital cultures.

Experience

• 2021–present Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Gender Studies, Monash University
• 2020–2021 Lecturer in Sociology and Gender Studies, Monash University
• 2016–2020 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Melbourne
• 2015–2016 Lecturer Sociology, Monash University
• 2011–2015 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Monash University

Education

• 2011 Monash University, PhD

Publications

• 2026 Media reporting of cancel culture: A narrative anatomy of Billie Eilish's cancellation, Social Semiotics
• 2025 Pain(ful) research: Hyperembodiment and the value of lived experience of pain in qualitative research, Qualitative Research
• 2025 Humanism strikes back? A posthumanist reckoning with 'self-development' and generative AI, AI & Society
• 2024 “Oh how I love being a woman”: post-feminism and contemporary femininity on TikTok, Feminist Media Studies
• 2024 'Sex is so much more than penis in vagina': sex education, pleasure and ethical erotics on Instagram, Sex Education
• 2023 Feminist sex-positive art on Instagram: reorienting the sexualizing gaze, Feminist Media Studies
• 2023 Participatory Design and Evaluation of the“Stem Cells Australia” Website for Delivering Complex Health Knowledge: Mixed Methods Study, Journal of Medical Internet Research
• 2023 How Great a Risk Do You Take? A Qualitative Study Exploring Attitudes of Individuals with Friedreich Ataxia Toward Gene Therapy, Human Gene Therapy
• 2022 School food in Australia: a dog's breakfast? (Book Chapter), Routledge Handbook of Critical Obesity Studies
• 2021 The family meals imperative and everyday family life: An analysis of children's photos and videos, Journal of Public Health
• 2020 Locus of care (Chapter), Health, Technology and Society: Critical Inquiries
• 2020 Children, 'healthy' food, school and family: the '[n]ot really' outcome of school food messages, Children's Geographies
• 2020 Contact Us for More Information: An Analysis of Public Enquiries about Stem Cells, Regenerative Medicine
• 2020 The ineffable allure of sugar Hammer cake, That Sugar Film and contradictory pleasures, Food and Foodways
• 2019 'Sticky' foods: how school practices produce negative emotions for mothers and children, Emotions, Space and Society
• 2019 Navigating the cartographies of trust: how patients and carers establish the credibility of online treatment claims, Sociology of Health and Illness
• 2019 Citizens' use of digital media to connect with healthcare: socio-ethical and regulatory implications, Health
• 2019 The politics of evidence in online illness narratives: an analysis of crowdfunding for purported stem cell treatments, Health
• 2018 Tackling the Ethical Challenges Associated with Premature Delivery of Stem Cell-Based Therapies, Stem Cell Reports
• 2017 'No-one here's helping me, what do you do?': addressing patient need for support and advice about stem cell treatments, Regenerative Medicine
• 2016 Stem cell tourism and the political economy of hope, Palgrave MacMillan
• 2016 University students' drinking as a social practice and the challenge for public health, Critical Public Health
• 2015 Mothers caring through injury: how can we understand the dual burden of caregivers' recovery?, Journal of Family Studies
• 2015 Starting antidepressant use: a qualitative synthesis of UK and Australian data, British Medical Journal Open
• 2015 Social class, anxieties and mothers' foodwork, Sociology of Health and Illness
• 2015 “My dirty little habit”: Patient constructions of antidepressant use and the 'crisis' of legitimacy, Social Science and Medicine
• 2015 Seeing the Full Picture: The Hidden Cost of the Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Revolution, Book chapter in Regenerative Biology of the Eye, Humana Press
• 2014 Food, fat and family: Thinking fathers through mothers' words, Women's Studies International Forum
• 2014 Practicing Food Anxiety: Making Australian Mothers Responsible for Their Families' Dietary Decisions, Food and foodways
• 2013 Responsibility and resistance: women negotiating the nourishment of children, Families, Relationships and Societies
• 2013 Vanity: 21st Century Selves, Palgrave MacMillan
• 2013 'I don't want her to be overweight like I was as a girl': Mother/child bodily connections in nutritional carework, Australian Feminist Studies
• 2011 Modernity's 'New Women': Visual culture and gender play in 1890s Australia, Hecate: an interdisciplinary journal of women's liberation

Grants and Contracts

• 2025 Safeguarding posthumous digital data: understanding Australians' views Role: Chief Investigator Funding Source: Australian Research Council
• 2022 ARISTOCRAT: Cartilage based stem cell therapies for joint deformity and facial disfigurement. A framework for point-of-care manufacturing and delivery Role: Chief Investigator Funding Source: Medical Research Future Fund
• 2021 Improving decisions about access to stem cell interventions Role: Chief Investigator Funding Source: Medical Research Future Fund
• 2020 Kids co-designing sustainable and healthy environments Role: Chief Investigator Funding Source: VicHealth
• 2020 A Citizen Science Approach to Monitoring unhealthy industry digital marketing to young people Role: Chief Investigator Funding Source: VicHealth
• 2015 Children as health advocates in families: assessing the consequences Role: Chief Investigator Funding Source: Australian Research Council

Professional Memberships

• The Australian Sociological Association
• The Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association

Research Areas

• Sociology (1608)
• Gender Specific Studies (169901)
• Sociology And Social Studies Of Science And Technology (160808)
• Communication Technology And Digital Media Studies (200102)
• Social Theory (160806)

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